Dodgers Secure Edwin Diaz, Bolstering Their Bullpen

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00:00This is disgusting.

00:00The Dodgers get Edwin Diaz.

00:02Come on already.

00:03Like, they're just pouring it on.

00:06Like, the rich get richer here,

00:08and this is, like, the only issue that they had

00:10was finding a guy for the ninth.

00:11Oh, by the way, they signed a guy from the ninth last year

00:14for Tanner Scott.

00:15They're just going to discard him probably.

00:17Like, it doesn't even matter.

00:19I don't know.

00:19I mean, great for Edwin Diaz, great for Dodgers fans,

00:24but, like, are they going to sign Kyle Tucker too?

00:26Maybe, right?

00:27I don't know.

00:29I feel like, you know, the way that I interpret

00:33the offseason and the free agent market

00:36is you can really condense the free agent market

00:38for guys that are going to make nine figures

00:40or guys that are going to make over $150 million.

00:42You can condense that to seven or eight suitors at this point,

00:45and that is obviously something that Major League Baseball

00:48wants to address at some point and seems like some point soon.

00:51But what I will say about Edwin Diaz,

00:53there are a couple of elements here that intrigue me.

00:55Number one, relatively speaking,

00:58and I know it's crazy to say about a three-year, $69 million deal,

01:01it didn't cost a ludicrous amount of money to go get Edwin Diaz,

01:05especially when you look at what Devin Williams got from the New York Mets

01:08about a week and a half ago.

01:09Devin Williams got three for $50 million.

01:12Edwin Diaz just got three for $69 million.

01:15So that's about $8 million a year that you add on to Devin Williams.

01:20And I ask you, and I know that it's greater than an ERA conversation

01:25and a blown saves conversation,

01:26would you rather have Edwin Diaz for $8 million more a year?

01:29Would you rather try it with Devin Williams,

01:32who's three or four years younger than Edwin Diaz is?

01:35I personally, if I were the Mets,

01:37would prefer to have the best closer in the game

01:39or at least one of the best closures in the game

01:41instead of the $50 million reclamation project,

01:45albeit the stuff is way better than a reclamation project.

01:48Right, right, right.

01:48Number two, the Dodgers had literally one weakness and they attacked it.

01:51Like, that's my big thing.

01:53Every single offseason, Andrew Friedman, Brandon Gomes, the general manager,

01:57they go into the offseason saying,

01:59what did our flawless team have exposed?

02:03What is the trace amount of flaw that we have on this roster?

02:06And they fill it.

02:07You know, usually it's bombarding the starting pitching market

02:10and going to acquire Tyler Glassnow or Blake Snell

02:12or signing Roki Sasaki in the International Free Agency.

02:16You know what?

02:17The bullpen crumbled on them over the last two months of the season

02:20and the entirety of the postseason.

02:21And they alleviated that by going to get the best closer in the game.

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